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One of the most underrated comic book films of the 1990s

posted 9 years ago by bicentennialmanforever
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This and The Phantom are severely underrated comic book films. Regardless of what people say they are fun films that give fair origin stories with the budget they had at the time. The Shadow to me feels like a pretty cool superhero that shares many similarities to Batman. It parallels Batman Begins in a sense that the hero discovers his destiny in another country and comes back to America to kick some ass.

You guys should check out the marathon I did with The Shadow. I called it When Men Become Crime Fighters. You can check it out on my blog.

http://mbmb14.blogspot.com/2015/07/when-ordinary-men-become-heroes.html

[–] grendelkhan 8 years ago

It's a pulp novel film, not a comic book film. The Shadow only over appeared in a relatively small number of comics. He was in over a hundred pulp novels and even more hours of radio. There were costumed crime fighters before comic books.

It's an underrated film, certainly.

Fortunately, Ah keep mah feathers numbered for just such an emergency!

[–] dalbrech 8 years ago

Actually, he was in over 250 pulp novels. The Shadow Magazine ran from 1931 to 1949, and for over ten years it came out twice a month.

I have mixed feeling toward this film. They really overdid the Shadow;s magic powers.Making him into Dr.Strange was a mistake. He only should have had the power to cloud men's minds, which was the only power he had in the radio show. In the pulps, he never had any magic powers at all.

[–] dalbrech 8 years ago